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Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Tombstone Tuesday: Elmwood Cemetery, Winnipeg, Manitoba

My roots are deep in Canada. The next cemetery is in Winnipeg. It is the Elmwood Cemetery where my great grandfather Edmund Boardman is buried along with other family members like his oldest son Edmund James Boardman and wife Jessie. I feature them on my blog: The Boardmans and Browns of Winnipeg, A Canadian Story:http://boardmanbrown.wordpress.com/

I have never visited Elmwood Cemetery. I hired a researcher to assist me in my genealogical quest and he provided these photographs. He has given his permission for me to publish them. His name is Rick McLellan and he is active in the Manitoba Genealogical Society (MGS). http://www.mbgenealogy.com/index.php?page=mgs-record-searchers

My great grandmother Charlotte McMurray Boardman, Edmund's wife, is buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, California (near Pasadena) along with one of her 4 sons, William Boardman.

Below are views of Elmwood Cemetery, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Mr. McLellan was working for me so he was very specific about what graves he took pictures of and focused on the people listed on the page he gave me from the cemetery book. In these photos he was giving me a general overall look at the graves in their surroundings. He then supplied me with specific grave photos which I have published on my Boardman & Brown Blog - see link above.

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The header photo is of the Lee Cemetery in Hardin Co., Ohio southeast of Kenton, Ohio.

As of today 8/12/2016 Google has closed down Picasa for Photos. They moved them to Google Photos and Google Photo Archive. If there are any problem with my photos from this blog give me a holler and I will check it out. When posting in Blogger the photos went into Picasa for safekeeping it doesn't work that way at Wordpress. I did not move BJM Cemeteries to Wordpress so this is why I am concerned. So far so Good. Thanks. Let me know if there is a problem with any of the photos. Thanks.

As a member of Find A Grave I have been adding photos and memorials and getting some transferred to me and trying to spend a couple hours each week adding to the website. Scroll to the bottom of this blog and you will find a link to my contributions on Find A Grave.

Here are my tips:

I find Find A Grave is really good for finding tombstones and memorials for those buried in the USA. Canada is making progress in adding to Find A Grave but you also have to go to other websites in your search. These websites are the Canadian Headstones.com, OCFA - Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid, the Canadian Gen Webs Cemetery project are few places to look. Each province may have a way to locate cemeteries. Hopefully I have identified these websites in my posts but be aware they do change their urls.